Episode #1133

Pandora's Jukebox & Racy Operas

Friday, August 13, 2010

Leon Botstein, a conductor who started the annual Bard Music Festival
(Steve J. Sherman)

Kurt Andersen talks with the founder of Pandora, the internet jukebox that makes custom radio stations just for you. But can it make a station that plays both Ludacris and Yo-Yo Ma? The legacy of a little-known Hungarian émigré composer becomes a life-long obsession for one man. And when the flutist Tim Munro is on tour, his go-to road music is Handel.

“
The smartest, most capable machine is the human ear.

— Pandora founder Tim Westergren

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